I may feel like you guys when my car runs.

Seriously, this is a great forum and there are nice and helful folks on here . It is fun to leisurely read posts. And it works great overall. I am new here and it is the only MB Diesel forum i've been on and I never looked any further because after a post or two I saw this was a friendly, helpful and fun place.

Maybe change would hurt it. However I do think a simple message tagging system may help. Users could tag messages anyway they want. It is like a few word synopsis and messages can have as many tags as they people want to give them -- "BoneheadDR is IN" , "Glow Plug Relay" , "Funny", "Clever" , "Smart Idea", "Thermostat" , "Part #" . And you just tag messages as you leisurely read posts. It is not a retructuring or reformatting of the forum. Tags are an aside, . You do not even have to use them. Or you can use them to give more personality to posts. I think that would make the forum more fun and well as more utilitarian.
But i could be wrong too. However sites that use tagging sytems are really taking off like Flickr.com , the photo sharing site.

Its the same concept but we are sharing car talk.